Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Can We Just All Accept Reality? Guns Are Not Going Away. [View all]dballance
(5,756 posts)Perhaps you missed the statement in my post "Rather than demonizing guns because of the relatively small number of people who use them in a completely horrible way" that speaks to intentional gun violence.
If you have a valid idea to identify people like the Columbine killers, the VA Tech killer, the Aurora, CO killer or robbers who freak out and end up shooting innocent convenience store clerks I'm open to hearing it.
One of the points of my post is that common possession of a weapon is demonized because sometimes it goes wrong. As in when a child finds a gun or an idiot shoots themselves.
Yes, there is intentional gun violence. The recent NFL player incident is a good example. But those types of incidents are really still rare given the number of guns vs. people and crimes in the US.